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— Peter Svensson, AP knowledge Writer___Cray to upgrade fastest US supercomputerNEW YORK — laptop draftswoman Cray Inc. pray upgrade the area of Energys Jaguar central processing unit so it can run not quite 10 era quicker and challenge a Japanese central processing unit to regain its lasting so the worlds fastest central processing unit.The Jaguar was the worlds fastest processor at what time Cray built it modish 2008 in support of the Oak Ridge nationalized Laboratory modish Tennessee. in our day, its the worlds third-fastest supercomputer, according to a slant compiled by supercomputer researchers.Under the $97 million contract, Cray long for swap not at home the Jaguars other than 224,000 processors made by higher Micro diplomacy Inc. and put back them with a combination of updated AMD processors and graphics chips from Nvidia Corp.